It is so encouraging when we share our stories of God's work in our lives. Caroline leads us in an encouragement to recall and write down some of the good things that God has been showing His kindness and faithfulness.
Our culture today says “look after yourself”. However, we look to the Lord to be our source and provide all our needs. We don’t need to hold onto possessions, or be worried we are not looked after. God is looking after us and He invites us to participate in looking after each other.
Devotion - honouring each other and genuinely loving each other well brings glory and honour to God as the love of Jesus flows through us.
Building upon the previous message about patterns of devotion and love shared by early followers of Jesus in the fledgeling New Testament church.
We are deeply loved by the Father because we are accepted in the the beautiful, precious, beloved Son of God - Jesus.
There are some aspects of Jesus' encounter with a Phoenician woman which may seem confronting, and yet it is clear that God rewards real faith and those who earnestly seek him, no matter where they come from!
God may allow us to be uncomfortable as we pursue a life of faith in Him, but being uncomfortable is not the same as being unsafe. Maybe it's time to step out!
"Become intimate with Him, in whatever you do, and He will lead you wherever you go." Proverbs 3:6 TPT We have been fasting as a church community for a week and a half now and the sole aim is to become more intimate with God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). A quote I read said this; "Fasting is an outward expression of an inward commitment to pursue God." When we are fasting, we are pursuing more of God by putting aside the things that our flesh craves and wants, and take the time to become more intimate with God. How do we become more intimate with Him? We spent time WITH Him, we spend time LISTENING TO Him, and we spend time with UNDIVIDED ATTENTION ON Him. In this message, I am focusing on two times in the New Testament where fasting is spoken about; one time is in Luke 4:1-14 when, after He was baptised, Jesus goes into the wilderness and is…
Following Jesus in life means being radically (re)aligned with him in everything. Only then may we discover all that he has for us.
It doesn't matter who we are, we are on a journey ... life is a journey. It's all about how we walk it out, what we learn along the way, and how we position ourselves for greater things. Just personally, I feel like I've talked about this a lot over the last few years - it's become a big part of my language. I guess I believe that the life journey I am on has had such a varied range of landscapes and lookouts, bumps in the road and some amazing smooth highways to go seriously fast on (please note, I am not talking literally :-)). The one thing I am absolutely sure of is that I know that I don't want to journey anywhere without Jesus. When our kids were all little, we were generously given a week's holiday down south near Batemans’s Bay. We decided on one of the days that we were going to do a walk…